Archaeology and Anthropology

Studying these disciplines together will provide you with insight into what it means to be human. This will enable you to address issues that are critical to our shared global future, including:

the relationship between humans and environmental change

inequality, migration and identity

population growth and development

human diets and health

politics, economics and sustainability.

By examining human development, behaviour and different cultures, you’ll better understand the roots of these issues. You’ll learn how other societies have tackled comparable problems and how contemporary societies are addressing them now.

Using methodological approaches from the sciences, social sciences and humanities, you’ll explore the diversity of human experience. You will learn about the biological evolution of our earliest ancestors, the pre-historical and historical development of different cultures, and present-day ways of life and social issues.

We’ll support you to develop a broad range of subject-specific and transferable skills that span the humanities and sciences. Your learning can include:

the investigation of artefacts recovered through excavations and standing monuments

how material, biological, and ethnographic evidence can be used to understand past and contemporary cultures and societies

handling human remains to learn about burial archaeology and biological anthropology

examining how ideas of gender vary between different times and societies today

how climate and environmental change has impacted lives past and present.